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Treatment providers and people in recovery tell Senate committee sports betting expansion could deepen addiction, youth exposure and family harms
Summary
Treatment providers, recovery advocates and people who described their own gambling disorder testified about addiction, family trauma and calls to hotlines. An academic presentation linked sports‑betting legalization and mobile access to increases in intimate partner violence after NFL upset losses.
Treatment providers, recovery specialists and multiple people in recovery described to the Minnesota Senate Finance Committee on May 20 the human consequences they associate with expanded sports betting: family financial collapse, mental‑health crises, and increasing exposure of teens and young adults to betting products.
Susan Sheridan Tucker, director of the Minnesota Alliance on Problem Gambling, told the committee the state needs both expanded prevention and more funding for problem‑gambling services if betting is legalized. “We fully support comprehensive consumer protections for…
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